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Facebook's next step: invasion of privacy or improvement of users' lives?

New reports around the world claim that the giant social network, Facebook, is working on a new smartwatch that will combine health applications with messaging.

However, even before the watch was launched, questions were raised about how Facebook would handle sensitive information about users.

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"The huge social network is working on a smartwatch that will focus on health and messaging applications," reports The Information website, which cites four factors involved in the development of the watch.

According to the site, Facebook's smartwatch will run the Android operating system, but most likely Facebook may develop a dedicated interface for it and it is possible that in the future it will also run an operating system built by Google, but this date is expected to be during 2023, with the launch of the second generation.

As expected, Facebook's smartwatch will integrate all the company's services, including Messenger, WhatsApp, Instagram, and it will support mobile connectivity that will allow you to continue receiving notifications even when the watch is not connected to a smartphone.

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The report also states that Facebook will allow software and hardware health services to connect to the smartwatch.

However, given the problem of Facebook's reputations and everything related to users' privacy, it will be interesting to see the reactions of users with the new watch and whether they will be skeptical about the degree of privacy of the watch that knew about us more data like health data, then they can be sold to third parties. focused.

The new watch is expected to be launched during 2022, and its price is expected to be close to the cost of production.

The network claims that the price of the watch will be cheaper than the price of the Apple watch, including the SE model.

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